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Factbox: How Facebook, Twitter, and others are girding for inauguration threats
Social media companies are under close scrutiny over their handling of misinformation and threats of violence tied to the inauguration...
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EU hits game distributor Valve, five others with 7.8 million euro fine
U.S. distributor Valve Corp, owner of the world's largest video game distribution platform Steam, and 5 video game publishers received...
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Trump pardons former Google self-driving car engineer Levandowski
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had given a full pardon to a former Google engineer sentenced for...
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Malwarebytes hacked by state actors behind SolarWinds attack
Cybersecurity company Malwarebytes said on Tuesday that some of its emails were breached by the same hackers who used the...
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Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre: there are no systems that cannot be breached
The distribution of child pornography, financial crimes, and ransomware remain a major headache for Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). In...
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Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Parler, a social media website and app popular with the American far right, has partially returned online with the help...
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Hungary mulls sanctions against social media giants
Hungarian Justice Minister Judit Varga on Monday raised the prospect of sanctioning social media firms over what she called "systematic...
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Trump admin slams China's Huawei, halting shipments from Intel, others
The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel, that it is revoking certain licenses to sell to the Chinese...
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Parler's website is back online, but app still not in stores
The chief executive of social media platform Parler, popular with American right-wing users but which virtually vanished after the U.S....
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Samsung launches new flagship Galaxy S smartphone early, targets remote workers, gamers
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday unveiled the first Galaxy S smartphone with a stylus for on-screen work called the...
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Chinese tech patents tools that can detect, track Uighurs
Chinese technology giants have registered patents for tools that can detect, track, and monitor Uighurs in a move human rights...
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Parler CEO says social media app, favored by Trump supporters, may not return
Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app...
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Email security firm Mimecast says hackers hijacked its products to spy on customers
Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers....
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What is Parler and why has it been pulled offline?
Before Apple Inc banned Parler from its App Store store on Saturday, the social media site topped the charts as...
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Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee prepares 'do-over'
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World...
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Parler sues Amazon over Web shutdown, alleges political animus
Parler LLC, a social media platform favored by many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, sued Amazon.com Inc on Monday,...
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Amazon to remove QAnon products from platform after U.S. Capitol siege
Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it was working to remove some QAnon products from its online marketplace, citing policies that...
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
Parler, a social network used to plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, has been hit by a...
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China's Baidu to create an intelligent EV company with automaker Geely
China's search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it will set up a company to partner with car maker...
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Bitcoin on record-setting spree, jumps 5% on day
Bitcoin jumped more than 5% on Friday to fresh record highs of $41,530, reversing losses from earlier in the session....
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